Creating and Experiencing the Arts
The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) investigates why and how people create art and how they perform, experience, and evaluate it. The Institute’s focus is on music, but we also engage with other performing arts such as dance and film.
The MPIEA explores the genetic, biological, and psychological processes that underlie the production and perception of art, as well as their interaction with the cultural, social, and historical factors and functions of aesthetic practices and discourses.
Events
Library Talks
Max Planck Institute for Empirical AestheticsJugendkirche St. Peter
Departments
Music
Director: Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
Using a variety of methods, the Department of Music researches the processing, experiencing and evaluation of music, as well as behaviour during its reception.
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Director: Prof. Dr. Fredrik Ullén
The Department of Cognitive Neuropsychology investigates the neuropsychological mechanisms of musical expertise, skill learning and creativity, as well as relations between cultural engagement, well-being and health.
Research Groups
Neurocognition of Music and Language
Apl. Prof. Dr. Daniela Sammler
The Research Group “Neurocognition of Music and Language” explores perceptual, cognitive, and expressive similarities and differences between music and language, as well as their neural grounding and links with aesthetics.
Neural Codes of Intelligence
The Neural Codes of Intelligence research group investigates the neural processing principles that underlie central aspects of human intelligence in order to understand how information processing supports intelligent behavior and shapes cognitive abilities.
Structural and Physiological Imaging with High-Field MRI
The research group studies the human brain using 7T and 3T MRI, developing high-res methods to map structure, function, and pathology in cognition, neurodevelopment, and neuropsychiatric disorders.